An important conversation in The Count of Monte Cristo. Dantès asks another prisoner (who accomplishes a lot in his confinement) what he might have become if he was was free.
— roobz 🌙 🌸 (@tishray) February 8, 2026
His answer is probably nothing, and for a good reason. pic.twitter.com/YSiYKVwmEP
Isn’t it interesting that your newspaper is reporting this now, decades after the fact? Are you guys so incompetent you couldn’t trace this connection earlier? Or were you covering up for the Clintons all that time? https://t.co/kNt9Un7NT9
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) February 9, 2026
The Frieze of the Small Horses, painted at Lascaux about 20,000 years ago. pic.twitter.com/nCRprhYkBE
— Chris Stringer (@ChrisStringer65) October 23, 2025
This is so mean I wish I typed it. https://t.co/m1myaRQiAG
— alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) February 9, 2026
Studies confirm that having a baby is contagious!
— More Births (@MoreBirths) February 8, 2026
If a friend or family member has a baby, a woman is much more likely to have a baby herself in subsequent years. At least seven different studies have found this effect! 🧵! https://t.co/NjIzweEieh pic.twitter.com/6NodPYpSUT
The dominant force in creating a common culture between peoples each of which has its distinct culture, is religion. Please do not, at this point, make a mistake in anticipating my meaning. This is not a religious talk, and I am not setting out to convert anybody. I am simply stating a fact. I am not so much concerned with the communion of Christian believers today; I am talking about the common tradition of Christianity which has made Europe what it is, and about the common cultural elements which this common Christianity has brought with it. If Asia were converted to Christianity tomorrow, it would not thereby become a part of Europe. It is in Christianity that our arts have developed; it is in Christianity that the laws of Europe have —until recently—been rooted. It is against a background of Christianity that all our thought has significance. An individual European may not believe that the Christian Faith is true, and yet what he says, and makes, and does, will all spring out of his heritage of Christian culture and depend upon that culture for its meaning. Only a Christian culture could have produced a Voltaire or a Nietzsche. I do not believe that the culture of Europe could survive the complete disappearance of the Christian Faith. And I am convinced of that, not merely because I am a Christian myself, but as a student of social biology. If Christianity goes, the whole of our culture goes. Then you must start painfully again, and you cannot put on a new culture ready made. You must wait for the grass to grow to feed the sheep to give the wool out of which your new coat will be made. You must pass through many centuries of barbarism. We should not live to see the new culture, nor would our great-great-great-grandchildren: and if we did, not one of us would be happy in it.To our Christian heritage we owe many things besides religious faith. Through it we trace the evolution of our arts, through it we have our conception of Roman Law which has done so much to shape the Western World, through it we have our conceptions of private and public morality. And through it we have our common standards of literature, in the literatures of Greece and Rome. The Western World has its unity in this heritage, in Christianity and in the ancient civilisations of Greece, Rome and Israel, from which, owing to two thousand years of Christianity, we trace our descent. I shall not elaborate this point. What I wish to say is, that this unity in the common elements of culture, throughout many centuries, is the true bond between us. No political and economic organisation, however much goodwill it commands, can supply what this culture unity gives. If we dissipate or throw away our common patrimony of culture, then all the organisation and planning of the most ingenious minds will not help us, or bring us closer together.
In late 18th Century, a curious gold ring was dug up on farmland near Silchester in England. The ring bore the name “Senicianus” and a small engraved image. For decades it was simply an odd relic from the Roman past, its story unknown. Then, more than a century later,… pic.twitter.com/U5d65kcmUl
— Dr. M.F. Khan (@Dr_TheHistories) February 9, 2026
Western Civilization in a Nutshell:
— Andrew Côté (@Andercot) January 30, 2026
- Greek Philosophy and Mathematics
- Roman Legal and Administrative systems
- Carolingian education and universities
- Christian morality and spirituality
- Reformationist freedom of worship
- French Physiocratic free market capitalism
-… https://t.co/Lw1wqyGBFb
Decades-old palms in Rio de Janeiro are flowering for the first and only time.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) February 9, 2026
These India and Sri Lanka native trees can reach 100 feet and produce millions of blooms that may form new seedlings if pollinated.pic.twitter.com/adM4qQUiaM
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